Loongson Technology’s First GPGPU Chip Development Completed, Tape-out Scheduled for Q3

According to news from the semiconductor industry, on September 15, Loongson Technology announced on its investor interaction platform that the development of its first GPGPU chip, the 9A1000, has been basically completed, and tape-out will be delivered within the third quarter, with success dependent on the test results after the tape-out returns.

The 9A1000 is Loongson Technology’s first GPGPU chip officially disclosed in June this year, positioned as a low-cost GPGPU, and it is also the company’s first dedicated GPGPU chip, primarily aimed at graphics cards/AI acceleration cards. The graphics card performance is comparable to the AMD RX550 and supports OpenGL 4.0; in terms of terminal AI computing performance, the INT8 performance exceeds 32 TOPS. Additionally, the 9A1000 will integrate a video processing module, supporting H.264/H.265 encoding and decoding.

Loongson Technology’s chief engineer and head of general GPU processor development, Su Menghao, stated that the 9A1000 offers more than a fivefold performance improvement compared to the second-generation GPGPU core LG200 integrated in the 2K3000, with AI computing power reaching 40 TOPS. This is mainly due to a comprehensive upgrade of the GPU core in the 9A1000, which has doubled the graphics pipeline, increased the main frequency by 25%, and reduced the area of the stream processors by 20%, leading to a 70% reduction in light-load power consumption. Furthermore, the GPU scale of the 9A1000 has increased to four times that of the LG200.

Loongson Technology's First GPGPU Chip Development Completed, Tape-out Scheduled for Q3

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